Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde' traced back to Celtic Drystan and Essylt [audio 30min]

Welsh poet Twm Morys explores the legend of Tristan and Isolde, one of the world's most enduring love stories. Immortalised by Richard Wagner in his 1865 opera, the story predates this by over 1,000 years. Wagner based his text on medieval sources, which themselves derive from a much earlier oral tradition.